The number of games on sale via Steam varies from day to day, ranging from a few hundred to over a thousand, depending on whether they have any developer sales on or whether it's a special occasion such as Christmas, summer, Valentines day, Thanksgiving etc. You can find all of the games on sale HERE. I won't bother listing any of the games, but it should be worth visiting as there are games for all tastes. Of course you do need to install the Steam client, but IMO it is well worth it. There are lots of free games (not just free to play online games) available plus there are always games on sale. You'll often find other game distributors will sell games with a Steam key and most of the bundled games on sale usually come with a Steam key as well.

The Desura link was removed last year following the owner Bad JoJo going into liquidation, however, a buyer has since been found for the site and it will begin operating again soon. I think they will also be resurrecting the Indie Royale bundle which was also part of the Desura brand.

To be honest there are too many game deals around too list them all. Just visit the sites I recommend above and I'm sure you'll find something that suits you for a very decent price. If like me you prefer Steamworks games, many of the above sites also sell Steamwork games.

If that's not enough, check out the Game Discussion forums HERE for details of other games either free or on deals such as the Indie Game bundles and Bundles Stars bundles (there's over 40 of them at the moment - If you purchased all of them you'd be paying around $80 for around a thousand dollars worth of games); or check out the five day sales at IndieGameStand you'll find the indie bundles thread HERE. The thread is outdated, but all of the links will still take you to the latest bundles.

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The Daily Indie Games stopped their three day sales. Instead they now have several bundles available most of the time. usually with around 6 games for less than $2. You'll find the latest bundles HERE.

Most of the bundles available retail for around $5 give or take a few dollars (apart from the Daily Indie bundles that usually cost around $1.50 + or + 10 cents for six games), but you can pay as little as a dollar for some. There are some excellent bundles out at the moment. I highly recommend the first four sites as they regularly change their bundles, at least weekly. Bundle Stars is the most prolific, usually with at least 10 bundles, but sometimes a lot more. Some bundles stay for months, others for only a few days. Fortunately Greenlight is closing down soon, so Greenlight bundles will be a thing of the past. I say fortunately because most of the games released were not very good. some good games did come out of it and it did give wannabee developers an opportunity to release their creations, but overall all it seemed to do was increase the number of games released weekly from an average of about 10 games, to sometimes over a hundred. I reckon at least 75% of the games from those bundles have been Greenlit since I purchased my first Greenlight bundle. (I've bought at least 50 bundles with only Greenlight games and they have never cost more than $3 to $4 per bundle, with savings up to 90%. The flying bundle is the only one that will inform you when a game has been Greenlit and will send you your Steam keys, the rest you have to check your accounts page to see if they have added Steam keys. Sometimes it may take several weeks after the game has been released before you get your keys, but generally its either the same day or a few days after release at the most.

The free game from Origin at the moment is DEAD IN BERMUDA. Where escaping a plane crash alive was the easy part - now things get tricky. Explore a mysterious island and keep your team of eight alive in this survival adventure game, all for free.

It’s On The House! Check it out HERE. You do need a free Origin account and install the Origin client to get these free games. Once you've installed the Origin client and signed into your account select 'On the house' from the 'Free Games' drop down menu. Then select download now. The game will then be registered to your Origin account permanently.

Developers rely on good feedback to improve their games. If you download this game please take some time once you’ve played it a while to leave some constructive feedback either positive or negative. The more constructive feedback we get, the more likely developers are going to give more games away. The giveaway site already has a very good standing with the search engines. Developers want their products out there on the WWW, this site has the potential to do that. The game giveaway project gives away on average between 9 to 17 thousand downloads for each game depending upon what genre and how obscure the game is. That’s a lot of homes these games are being downloaded into and a lot of 'potential' cash that’s being lost by the developers. If we get better games because of better feedback, the community are likely to continue to benefit from the generosity of the developers. Satisfied community members are then more likely to visit the home sites of those developers and purchase games that they may not have bothered with before they discovered the developer via the game giveaway site, thus giving the developers more incentives to give away even more decent games.

Please leave some feedback once you’ve checked the game out. It can be positive or negative, but please explain what your reasons were for the feedback you post. You could also leave suggestions for improving the game, for example, this game could do with more block types for the levels editor, add more power-ups, describing the ones you think would be suitable, add some mini games (which seem all the rage in some arcade games now) or enable the user to be able to change the in game music easily.

Thank you in advance to all those who take the time to post a constructive comment, and a big thank you to all of the developers and distributors who contribute to this site for sharing and to the game giveaway team for getting these games.
Regards
Whiterabbit aka Stephen

I've posted a list of over 200 Steam games in these forums HERE some of which I will giving away each week to those community members who post decent feedback for the game given away that day. It is quite an extensive list of games taken from the 10 000+ Steam keys I've collected over the last several years; all were either purchased by me, or received free for pre-ordering games on Steam, plus a few from entering competitions and other offers). There will be a limited number of other keys available, such as Origin, uPlay and Desura keys (Desura has recently been purchased following the original owners demise and should be up and running by the end of March). I will announce the winner's from the giveaway the following week. If no announcement is made, it means no one posted feedback that qualified for a free game that week. If you have won a game, I will post details in the thread I've created specifically for that purpose HERE. Once I've given a key away, the game and any comments by the winner will be removed from the list.

Depending on the quality of the feedback, I may choose to award games to more community members for each game given away, 'at my discretion'. The feedback must be about the game, and it must include a couple of paragraphs of feedback following the guidelines I've posted in the suggestions section of my review. i.e. your opinion of the game, what you liked and/or disliked plus suggestions for improvement. If you choose a game that is very cheap I may give you a second game; so, when choosing from the list I provide, please list more than one choice. If a game is chosen by more than one community member and only one key is available the key will go to the one I deem the most useful. I do have multiple keys for quite a lot of the games I've listed, so, don't be put off if you see someone else has chosen the game you want. I haven't indicated any of the games I have multiple keys for (though for example I do have several keys for the excellent Western themed AAA game Call of Juarez, which i picked up for free for purchasing several games via the Indie Gala store several months ago. spending a few dollars got me a copy of the game, so I made several separate purchases over a couple of days while the offer was still live.

I do own at least three community members a game from the previous giveaways that I posted several months ago. I'd totally forgotten about those. I do have a document with their names on, so they will get a game from the original list when I find the document (I'm extremely disorganized); or they can peruse the new list and choose something different. Just post a comment over in the forums in the appropriate thread. If you do post feedback with a view to getting one of the games and think you have covered the requirements, you don't have to do anything until I announce the winners the following week

Other Game Deals
You will also find lots of deals over on Green Man Gaming and Big Fish Games usually have 70% off the first game you buy from them, plus they also have other deals occasionally. Desura was purchased from Bad Ju Ju games last year by One Play. If you already have a Desura account you can read details of what is happening HERE. As yet you can't access games you previously purchased via Desura (I have around 1400), but One Play are working to recover everyone's accounts and hope to do so by the end of March 2017. Indie Royale will also resume on a weekly basis, though at this time I don't know if previous Inde Royale Greenlight bundles will be honoured?

Alawar, Gamehouse, Playrix Entertainment and Big Fish Games usually have a good selection of decent arcade games, with new additions being added frequently. Big Fish say they add a new one every day. Some of these game houses also have access to free online versions of their arcade games. Other game houses such as the AAA distributors Ubisoft, Origin and Green Man Gaming always have some games on sale

Free Online Games

The following is an updated list of other sites where you can find games on sale as well as links to free online games as well as other game houses plus gaming news sites such as Rock Paper Shotgun and Game Seek, and a list of popular and highly recommended free to play Massive Multiplayer games for example World of Tanks, World of Warships, Liberators and Allegiance to name a few.

Gaming Hardware
For gaming hardware and hard copies of games check out Game Seek, Amazon, Tech Radar. and eBay. There are loads of other sites that you can find via Google.

Free Downloadable Games

You can download hundreds of free arcade games (all these sites do have hidden extra's that can be avoided by unchecking the check-boxes during installation, but all will still open your browser when turning off a game. this is innocuous, but necessary for the free game sites survival. Every time you viost their home page through the forced visit, they earn cash, part of which goes towards paying the developers for allowing your game to be distributed basically for free.. The most popular and usually the safest include Gametop, Itch.io, Jenkay Games, FreeGamePick, and of course MyPlayCity. There's another decent one, but I've forgotten the name. will add it when I remember.

You can find a large list of Massive Multiplayer games via Steam (though many of them also have home pages where you can download and play the games without Steam HERE. Most (almost 700) of which are free (exceptions include Conan Online, Elder Scrolls Online plus others). Many of the free to play games many gamers consider pay to win becasue many also include commercial dlc packs that give you an advantage of pure free to play players. that although free to play do include dlc packs that cost money and do give you an advantage.

If you have any problems installing or getting The Musketeers: Victoria's Quest working, please go HERE for help. I've posted most of the common problems and solutions in a FAQ thread (most of which have been suggested by the community over the years), which you can find in the sticky section of the forums by

Whiterabbit-uk, Hi! I look forward to playing the GGOTD game..... once it finishes downloading!!! I have a question regarding Crystals of Time. I got the key, but have absolutely NO idea how to get the game without paying for it through Steam.... Couldn't find help anywhere - either the Indie site or Steam!

Log in to the Steam client application (if you haven’t yet, you can download the Steam client here . Click the button labeled "+ Add a Game" on the bottom left on the Steam client and select "Activate a Product on Steam..." and follow the on-screen instructions.

Alternate instructions are:

Please follow these instructions to activate a new retail purchase on Steam:

Launch the Steam client software and log into your Steam account.
Click the Games Menu.
Choose Activate a Product on Steam...
Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the process.

Thank you Chris!! I will try to find my Steam client app..... I am now also fighting with Windows10.... my start menu, search, notification boxes aren't working - again! But that's a whole different forum..... ;)